[hblug] Free Windows Apps

[Brett Wilkins]

I'd recommend uTorrent (or, alternatively, the actually BitTorrent client,
as it now uses code from uTorrent) over Azureus. The only problem is that
uTorrent isn't open source (but it is free.)

Thing with Azureus is it's Java based (I'm not a Java fan) and therefore
it runs in a virtual machine.

uTorrent on the otherhand is native Windows binary.

Cheers,

Brett

> If you built a windows computer for someone ( client / friend / family /
> whatever ) what software would you pre-install?
>
> When I build machines for clients, this is what they get as standard:
>
> Firefox
> Thunderbird
> OpenOffice
> Irfanview
> Media Player Classic
> 7zip
> AVG Free
> Spybot S&D
>
> That covers most peoples needs, if they want to p2p I'll add Frostwire
> and/or Azureus
>
> There is a nice list here http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
>
> What else would you include?
>
> chris
>
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